Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Whenever a +1/+1 counter is put on this creature, remove a +1/+1 counter from target creature an opponent controls.
When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card until this creature leaves the battlefield.
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-0 and can't block.
In desperation the soldier prayed to Phenax, begging for the power to cheat the gorgon's gaze.
Strive — This spell costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Any number of target creatures each get +1/+0 and gain lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)
Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
"I take no pleasure in your suffering, but it is necessary. Once you accept your fate you'll find eternity more tolerable."
Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.
Crippling fear precedes it. A foul stench accompanies it. Death follows in its wake.
Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, target creature gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Destroy all nonenchantment creatures.
Phenax offers the hope of life, while Pharika grants the solace of death. Between them stands Erebos, who promises nothing but eternity.
Destroy target enchanted creature or enchantment creature.
"We gave the gods the power to war against us. It is time we took that power back."
Deathtouch
Other Minotaur creatures you control have deathtouch.
It's common practice among minotaurs to collect the heads of their victims as trophies. Sometimes the trophies prove more than ornamental.
, Sacrifice this enchantment: Return up to three target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Drink deep, and death will recoil from you.
Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
This creature can't block.
Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 and can't block.
Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life.
Occasionally the living wander to the Rivers, but the wardens of Athreos ensure that only the dead pass.
Inspired — Whenever King Macar becomes untapped, you may exile target creature. If you do, create a Gold token. (It's an artifact with "Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent draws a card.
Any pleasure, when taken to excess, becomes torment. It's a formula that demons have perfected.
Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
"To think some believe it peaceful to die in one's sleep."
—Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 as long as it's an enchantment. Otherwise, it gets -2/-2.
A balm or a poison depending on how it is administered, and to whom.
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
The serpents' dens built into statues of Pharika serve not only to consecrate her temples, but as a hidden line of defense.
When this creature dies, each player mills three cards.
The flesh is dead and the life forgotten, but old habits persist.
Exile target creature card from your graveyard. Create a black Zombie creature token. Its power is equal to that card's power and its toughness is equal to that card's toughness.
A mask forged to avenge a death forgotten.
The hulk rose from the sea and loomed over the Champion. Pinned beneath the twisting, rotted planks of wood was the body of Kaliaros, the helmsman of her former crew, and beside him the captain, Photine.
—The Theriad
Strive — This spell costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Exile any number of target creatures and all Auras attached to them.
Destroy target creature and target land.
"Only a fool takes Phenax at his word. What do you expect from a god born of lies and betrayal?"
—Verenes, priest of Iroas
Squelching Leeches's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.
Leeches are sacred to followers of Pharika for drawing poison from a wound, but feared by everyone else for drawing blood from the flesh.
Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, each opponent discards a card.
Some predators can sense fear in their prey, but the lamia is drawn to madness.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Target player discards a number of cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
"Not all nightmares can be escaped by waking."
—Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
You control target player during that player's next turn. Exile Worst Fears. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for them.)
Elspeth feared that her trespass into Nyx would not go unanswered.
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, this creature gets +2/+0 and gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
The enemies' shields are the first to shatter, and their battle line is never far behind.
When this creature dies, destroy all permanents at the beginning of the next end step.
To hold the heavens from the earth is no curse, but a titanic responsibility.
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Deathbellow Canyon is home to minotaurs and many other creatures that share a love for the taste of human flesh.
Strive — This spell costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Any number of target creatures can't block this turn.
Creatures you control have haste.
"The anger that festers inside this one is contagious."
—Anthousa of Setessa
Flash
If a source would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.
Iroas and Mogis are as different in appearance as they are in personality.
Whenever a player casts a spell with mana value 3 or less, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.
Xenagos reveled while Theros burned.
Enchant creature you control
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice this Aura. If you do, destroy target artifact.
Create two 2/3 red Minotaur creature tokens with haste.
A minotaur does not distinguish between human, satyr, and triton. They are all meat.
, Sacrifice this enchantment: It deals 5 damage to target player or planeswalker.
Drink deep, and find your vengeance fulfilled.
Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.
Purphoros shaped the oreads out of stray coals from his forge.
: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
The cyclops had learned to never eat a shepherd. Instead he gently flung the "pit" aside to grow a new flock.
Strive — This spell costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Gain control of any number of target creatures until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn.
Whenever you scry, you may pay . If you do, this enchantment deals 2 damage to any target.
"Information is a powerful weapon."
—Cymede, queen of Akros
Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, it deals 2 damage to any target.
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.
"I fight for Keranos and for mortals. I see no contradiction."
Magma Spray deals 2 damage to target creature. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.
The ancient dragon Thraxes sleeps in Purphoros's sacred peak. When he stirs in dreams, so does the mountain.
Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
This creature attacks each combat if able.
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and attacks each combat if able.
The Champion and her companions marched through the night, but the battle was over before they arrived. In the middle of the carnage sat a solitary minotaur, lost in what seemed to the Champion to be thought.
—The Theriad
Double strike, trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn.
Fire to destroy. Fire to create.
Choose any target. Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Riddle of Lightning deals damage equal to that card's mana value to that permanent or player.
All creatures get +2/-2 until end of turn.
"Embrace every moment, for it could be your last."
—Xenagos, god of revels
Strive — This spell costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Any number of target creatures each get +2/+0 and gain trample until end of turn.
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
"Xenagos has become what he once despised: a tyrant and an oppressor."
Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
The runes seem to come alive as it moves, rippling like slow flames across its scales.
Flying
When this creature enters, it deals damage to any target equal to the number of Mountains you control.
Sparks from Purphoros's forge fill the belly of every dragon.
Spite of Mogis deals damage to target creature equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Starfall deals 3 damage to target creature. If that creature is an enchantment, Starfall deals 3 damage to that creature's controller.
"The most brilliant stars are not born of Nyx."
—Rhexenor, Akroan flamespeaker
Strive — This spell costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Choose any number of target creatures you control. For each of them, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it has haste. Exile those tokens at the beginning of the next end step.
: Monstrosity 1. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes monstrous.)
When this creature becomes monstrous, it deals 2 damage to each opponent and each creature they control.
Hexproof, reach
Setessan warriors of Bassara Tower are known for their guerrilla tactics and skill with the bow. Interlopers into the Nessian Wood do not get far.
Strive — This spell costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Any number of target creatures each get +2/+2 until end of turn. Untap those creatures.
Strive — This spell costs more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Destroy any number of target artifacts and/or enchantments.
Destroy target enchantment or land.
"The gods think of us as insects. Perhaps there is wisdom in that."
—Perisophia the philosopher